Evelyn used her success as a model to move onto Broadway. Evelyn discovered she could provide for her family, and her mother transported them to New York City in search of further fortune. Evelyn posed for a photograph, and people at once saw that she had a gift for it, some innate ability to adopt a look of tempting vacancy, “a mixture of ennui and expectation,” as Uruburu put it, that the camera adored and that would soon entrance much of the country. Then magic occurred, the first moment in a grand and catastrophic story of transformation. Evelyn’s father, an unambitious lawyer, died when she was young, and the family knew hardship. Nobody knows the exact year because Evelyn’s mother lied about her daughter’s age, probably to make the tantalizing girl-woman seem older than she was. Nesbit was born in Tarentum, Pa., in 1884, or 1885, or maybe 1886. She became a maddening object of desire, and tragically, a victim of her own beguiling beauty during the ‘gaudy spree,’ which she would help bring to a stunningly shameful end,” writes Paula Uruburu in “American Eve.” The author identifies a pattern that has shaped the lives of many female stars: Clara Bow, Marilyn Monroe and, more recently, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, who await their own endgames. “Women wanted to be her men wanted to own her. Doctorow, evoking a male character’s fantasy in his novel “Ragtime.” “Evelyn Nesbit had caused the death of one man and wrecked the life of another and from that he deduced that there was nothing in life worth having, worth wanting, but the thin embrace of her arms,” wrote E.L. These are the bare bones of a story that haunts the American imagination and has inspired books, poems and movies. On the baking night of June 25, 1906, Thaw approached White in White’s own backyard - that’s to say on Madison Square Garden’s splendid roof terrace - and calmly shot him three times in the face.
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Nesbit, so young, couldn’t break free of either man seeing no alternative, she married Thaw, and tension built and built until the inevitable tragedy occurred. Thaw more or less kidnapped Nesbit, whipped her habitually and forced her to tell him the nitty-gritty of her relationship with White. Thaw was mad, a sadist who set about pursuing Nesbit as he had various other of White’s many young mistresses. Thaw, heir to a Pennsylvania coke and railroad fortune.
White, the builder of an earlier Madison Square Garden and other grand Romanesque wedding-cake structures, was himself the focal point of obsession and crazy social envy of a young millionaire named Harry K. She was the mistress of Stanford White, New York’s celebrated architect. By THE time she was 16, Evelyn Nesbit was the face of her age, a stunning beauty with a “heart-stopping scarlet stare,” a famous artist’s and photographer’s model whose image, in the earliest years of the 20th century, was used to sell everything from soap to chocolate, sewing machines to powdered toothpaste.
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